I agree completely. But in many organizations recruiting and hiring would be considered overhead instead of strategic, and thus a target for outsourcing to som

I agree completely. But in many organizations recruiting and hiring would be considered overhead instead of strategic, and thus a target for outsourcing to someone in HR or some outside firm. The problem there of course is that those people have neither the ability nor the inclination to create or evaluate a work sample challenge. Really my comment was just to help demystify why this sort of thing doesn't happen in many companies based on my own observations.